2 v. : 39 cm. (fol.)

Vol. 1 has added engraved title page, with title: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Mundus subterraneus

Vol. 2 has only an engraved title page, with title: Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Iesu Mundi subterranei tomus IIus. In V. libros digestus, quibus mundi subterranei fructus exponuntur, et quidquid tandem rarum, insolitum, et portentosum in foecundo naturae utero continetur, ante oculos ponitur curiosi lectoris

Engraved title page of vol. 1 signed: J. Paul Schor delin. Romae, Theod. Matham sculpsit

Engraved title page of vol. 2 signed: C. vande Pas delineavit, A. Siourtsma sculpsit

Engraved vignette on title page of vol. 1, with motto: Sapiens dominabitur astris

"Ad Alexandrum VII. Pont. Opt. Max."--Printed dedication on title page of vol. 1

Vol. 1 has engraved frontispiece portrait of the author

Dedicatory letter (vol. 1 p. [5-8]) addressed to "Alexandro VII. Pontifici maximo."

Dedicatory letter (vol. 2 p. [1-2]) dated June 1663 and addressed to "Sacratissimo & Invictissimo Leopoldo I⁰. Romanorum Imperatori justo, pio, felici."

Vol. 1: [20], 366, [6] p., [15] leaves of plates (13 folded); vol. 2: [8], 507, [9] p., [10] leaves of plates (3 folded)

Printed in double columns

Tailpieces, initials, printed marginal notes

Errata: vol. 2, p. [516]

Includes indexes

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